Cover Story: “Capturing Memories”

“My family and I, we posed for this painting when we went on vacation to Hawaii,” says Mark Ulriksen, the artist behind this week’s cover, “Capturing Memories.” “There are millions of people who spend their lives staring into their palms.”

Despite his digital fixation, Ulriksen recently started jotting down his memories on paper. “I was assigned to do this by a curator in Tel Aviv. He wanted to show that creativity doesn’t depend upon fancy paper and nice printing, so he told about three hundred artists all over the world: ‘Here’s a notebook, do whatever you want with it.’ I just thought ‘O.K., I’ll start writing and drawing something without my normal process of really thinking through what I’m going to do.’ I’ll let it evolve, straight in ink, as I go along.”

See below for a slideshow of selected pages of Mark Ulriksen’s notebook.